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A group of high-level experts will meet in mid-September to discuss the issue of Russian gas transit to the European Union through Ukraine after 2019, according to Marosz Sheffovic, Vice President of the European Commission on Energy. Among the topics of discussion of the experts in September, there will be the question of how the application of European legislation by Ukraine should affect the future transit contract and the mechanism for setting tariffs therein. planned, as well as ytannya highlight the structure of "Naftogaz Ukraine" new gas transmission network operator, who became party to the contract.
"High-level Expert Group is to hold a meeting in mid-September. On the basis of the current constructive mood of the experts, we believe that they will be able to prepare the basis for the next tripartite negotiations at the political level. My opinion is that time can not be lost and that a political meeting should take place in October. "The Vice-President of the EC added that the good practice would be to set a fixed frequency In turn, the head of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, Alexander Novak, decided to separate the discussion from the new transit contract of old numbers loading in the next five to ten years as part of plans to increase the supply of Russian gas to Europe.
"We are seeing more and more the consumption in Europe and increasing the volume of gas deliveries transiting through Ukraine in particular.For the next five to ten years, the volume of deliveries to European consumers will be even greater than in 2017-2018 It can be said of an additional growth of 10-15% .These additional volumes were discussed as one of the possible sources of loading of the gas transport system of Ukraine, "said Novak
ire also: Ukraine, Russia and the EU agree to develop a roadmap for gases. Klimkin, who participated in the discussions, thanked T. Tymoshenko as head of NJSC Naftogaz 's board of directors of Ukraine Andriy Koboliev and the commercial director of Yuriy Vitrenko' s company for the work. coordinated and creative team.
Tripartite Meeting in Berlin Representatives of Ukraine, Russia and the EU on the transit of Russian gas were held in Berlin at the invitation of the German Minister of Economy , Peter Altmeier. Vice President of the European Commission Maros Sheffovich, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, Energy Minister Alexander Novak of Russia, representatives of Naftogaz and Gazprom attended the signing of the current transit with Gazprom in 2009 year for a period of 10 years. The Stockholm Arbitration has examined the dispute between Naftogaz and Gazprom over the terms of this contract.
In February, the Stockholm Arbitration announced that it had granted $ 4.6 billion to Naftogaz. Given the decision on another dispute, Gazprom will pay $ 2.56 billion to Ukrainian society, but not Gazprom. On March 20, Gazprom officially informed Naftogaz that he was refusing to comply with the arbitration award.
On May 30, Naftogaz announced that it had begun the process of allocating 2.6 billion Russian debt to Gazprom. dollars in accordance with the arbitration decision of Stockholm in respect of supply and transit of gas.
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